# Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur w/ ButterCMS Founder & CEO, Jake Lumetta | Dev Interrupted Powered by LinearB > Jake Lumetta, founder & CEO of ButterCMS, discusses practical advice for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs on this week's episode of Dev Interrupted. [Podcast](https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted/podcasts) / Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur w/ ButterCMS Founder & CEO, Jake Lumetta # Coding Your Dreams into Reality: Lessons from an Engineer turned Entrepreneur w/ ButterCMS Founder & CEO, Jake Lumetta By Jake Lumetta | April 17, 2023 ![Jake_Lumetta_Podcast_Card_4df3821b90](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/Jake_Lumetta_Podcast_Card_4df3821b90?_a=BAVMn6ID0) Engineers make great entrepreneurs. So a startup that has two engineers as its founders must be twice as good, right? Not exactly. On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we talk to Jake Lumetta, founder & CEO of ButterCMS. A serial entrepreneur, Jake found success (and failure) with numerous startups before striking it big with ButterCMS. He joins us today to discuss practical advice for engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, like knowing when to step away from the keyboard and handover the codebase, why building a B2B startup is so much easier than building a B2C, and why two engineers founding a company together isn't always a good idea. ### Episode Highlights: * (2:41) Introduction * (3:58) Lessons in entrepreneurship * (17:15) Talking to customers * (18:52) Transition from engineer to CEO * (24:00) Stepping away from coding * (25:14) Building B2B vs B2C * (30:05) Worst mistakes you can make as a founder ###### **Want to cut code-review time by up to 40%? 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